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Queer Matter : News, Reviews And Interviews
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This is Joan Collins : she bares all in this excellent new documentary
You don’t have to be British (or queer) to appreciate that 88-year-old actress Joan Collins really is a national treasure. Made a Dame by HM The Queen, she has always been the nearest thing that we Brits ever had to old-style Holywood Glamour. Her rollercoaster personal life took her through her marriages, and affairs…
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Wish We Were There : Pioneers in Queer Cinema Event in LA
Its been 17 years since UCLA Film & Television Archive partnered with Outfest to create the Outfest UCLA Legacy Project for LGBT Moving Image Preservation. This essential development was formed to confront the fact that historically queer cinema and related moving images documenting the LGBTQ+ community have been tragically underseen and woefully under-cared for…
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LOVING : a photographic history of gay couples in the past
New Year’s Eve/Day is often a time of reflection for many single gay guys (and girls). Will the new year bring Mr. Right…. or even Mr Right Now? Its something that as a community we have dwelled on for decades … even centuries …. and even when it was often too tough to be…
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Mark Farrelly performs JARMAN his one play about the British iconic queer filmmaker and activist
The British writer/actor Mark Farrelly has established his considerable reputation of telling the stories of iconic queer figures. First Naked Hope, his one-man play about the legendary Quentin Crisp the flamboyant English writer, humorist, actor, life-class model, and at one-time rent boy. Crisp was a great self-publicist who gave outrageous interviews about his unusual life…
